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The first Children's Network Meeting for 2017 will be on Thursday 15th June from 9.30-11.30am, at Wesley Homelessness and Support Services, 291a Maroondah Hwy, Ringwood. Morning tea is provided so an RSVP is appreciated.  

Staff from Opening Doors, Women’s Refuges, Family Violence Support agencies, Family Support Services, Police FV Liaison and other agencies who work with families experiencing homelessness and family violence are invited to attend. We love to see familiar faces and new faces are welcome as well. 

This network will provide a forum for agency updates, sharing of resource information and practice challenges, discussions around regional themes, opportunities for case discussions and the potential to invite guest speakers as well as possibilities for interagency collaboration and capacity building. Please feel free to bring any brochures/pamphlets/ cards to this meeting.

There will usually be representation from Child First and Child Protection and this has always been a valuable time to understand ongoing changes to DHS, service boundaries and to discuss specific cases.

Dates for 2017 are as follows;

June 15th
August 10th
October 19th
November 30th -final for 2017.

All meetings are on a Thursday morning, 9.30-11.30am. A reminder email will be sent the week before.

Please RSVP to susie.lukis@wesley.org.au for catering and seating purposes.

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Next EHN Practitioner Meeting

The next Eastern Homelessness Network (EHN) Practitioner Meeting will be held on Thursday October 12th 2017 and will have a Youth focus.

Please RSVP to EHNnetworker@wesley.org.au by 10th October for catering purposes.

This is a great opportunity for practitioners and allied services to come together to share information and ideas. 

10-12.30pm at Federation Estate Greenwood Ave Ringwood.
Morning Tea will be served

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As a sector, we are celebrating the Federal Government having maintained the existing levels of homelessness funding, and the increased certainty of that funding, but have expressed concern that the additional investment needed to cope with the demand crisis was missing.

Watch this video of Jenny Smith giving a Budget reaction on behalf of Homelessness Australia, and read the Homelessness Australia media release, and read on for deeper analysis of Budget papers.

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